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Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!

On 2 Feb 1999, Jason Merrill wrote:
> Um, what is the problem exactly with egcs@cygnus.com just bouncing to
> egcs@egcs.cygnus.com?  Why can't the filters handle that?

The filters (at least RBL MAPS and ORBS, that is) are based on the IP
address of the server sending the mail.

Now, if instead of
  LISTED SERVER --> egcs [secured]
you have
  LISTED SERVER --> cygnus.com [unsecured, but not listed] --> egcs
the blocks on the egcs machine won't help.

Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/